The Emperor's Last Island
A Journey to St Helena
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
7 November 1997
Summary
A magically idiosyncratic collage of history, biography and travel writing, permeated with madness and fantasy, absurdity and despair… Bewitching - The Times
The Emperor’s Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and about the tangle of stories and myths, absurdities and simple facts that have accumulated around Napoleon and his sojourn here. It follows him through the eyes of those who lived with him, who guarded him, who managed only to catch a br…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099752110 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099752115 |
| Author: | Julia Blackburn |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 7 November 1997 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
A melancholy and exquisitely bizarre essay on fame, morality and the vanity of human wishes
A melancholy and exquisitely bizarre essay on fame, morality and the vanity of human wishes * London Review of Books *
Moving and original… Julia Blackburn writes like an angel – Mary Wesley
Pure enchantment, stranger than fiction * Cosmopolitan *
About The Author
Julia Blackburn
Julia Blackburn has written a number of books of non-fiction, fiction and poetry.
- Time Song was shortlisted for the Wainwright Book Prize.
- Threads won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award and the New Angle Prize.
- Thin Paths was shortlisted for the Costa Prize for Biography.
- The Three of Us won the J.R. Ackerley Award.
- Her two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper’s Companions, were both shortlisted for the Women’s Prize.
She lives in Suffolk and Italy.
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